Past Events
Annual CQuIPS Symposium 2023
November 1, 2023
The 2023 Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) Symposium was hosted by a joint partnership between the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine and three of its major teaching hospitals, the Hospital for Sick Children, Women's College Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. SED Lab research assistant Soyun Oh presented at the symposium and was one of the winners of the Top 3 Short Presentations award. She will be presenting at the CQuIPS Speaker Series on Thursday November 21.
Professor Alfred and Soyun at the 2023 CQuIPS symposium.
Professor Alfred giving a presentation on human factors in health.
Professor Alfred and Soyun at the 2023 CQuIPS symposium.
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
67th International Annual Meeting
October 23-27, 2023
ASPIRE, the HFES International Annual Meeting, is the premier educational activity organized by the Society. This year, the conference took place in Washington, D.C. The meeting typically hosts between 1,500 and 2,000 attendees from academia, government, and industry in the field of human factors and ergonomics, and features over 600 technical presentations.
SED Lab research assistant Rob (Hongbo) Chen was in attendance and presented his work on patient safety event report classification:
"Our research emphasizes the significance of text representation in the context of patient safety event (PSE) report classification. More specifically, we utilized contextual text representations from transformer-based language models to improve the accuracy of PSE report classification. Moreover, by incorporating an explainable artificial intelligence technique (XAI), the Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) technique, we’ve established an interface promoting transparency and collaboration between artificial intelligence and healthcare professionals."
Additionally, MASc student Nicole Hicks did a poster presentation, introducing her research on how she will be using patient journey mapping and a systems analysis to identify patient’s unmet needs, and barriers and facilitators to their care during pregnancy and postpartum to design more equitable maternal care.
Nicole Hicks with her poster presentation on the use of patient journey mapping in designing equitable maternal care.
Rob (Hongbo) Chen presenting his work on patient safety event report classification and machine learning.
Nicole Hicks with her poster presentation on the use of patient journey mapping in designing equitable maternal care.
Inter-University Workshop (IUW) 2023
September 23, 2023
The Inter-University Workshop (IUW) brings together researchers from the University of Waterloo, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Toronto for a one-day event to showcase current and proposed research projects related to the field of human factors and ergonomics. The student-organized event encourages participation from graduate and undergraduate researchers studying human factors engineering, biomechanics, ergonomics, psychology, cognitive engineering, user experience, and design to showcase their work conducted in academia or industry settings. The mission of IUW is to provide student researchers with the opportunity to present their research, network and engage in academic discussions with colleagues and peers.
Attendees of the 2023 IUW conference in Waterloo, Ontario.
Max Bao and Fiona Sun presenting their work.
Soyun Oh presenting her work on barriers to medical interpretation services at St. Michael's Hospital.
Attendees of the 2023 IUW conference in Waterloo, Ontario.
14th Annual MIE Graduate Research Symposium
June 27, 2023
Tosin Akintunde, Soyun Oh and Rob Chen at the MIE graduate research symposium.
Tosin Akintunde presenting her research on racial and ethnic disparities in long-term contraception use among the birthing population.
Tosin Akintunde, Soyun Oh and Rob Chen at the MIE graduate research symposium.
International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care
March 26-29, 2023
Andrea Bolanos, Anna Szatan, Michelle Lai, Professor Alfred, Deenar Virani, Nicole Hicks and Tselot Tessema at the HFES conference.
Andrea Bolanos introducing her poster presentation on checklists in healthcare.
Professor Alfred and Nicole Hicks.
Andrea Bolanos, Anna Szatan, Michelle Lai, Professor Alfred, Deenar Virani, Nicole Hicks and Tselot Tessema at the HFES conference.
Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (UnERD) 2022
August 17, 2022
Members of the SED lab at the 2022 UnERD conference.
Andrew Evanyshyn and Zeina Shaltout with their poster presentation on applications of extended reality in informed consent for patients.
Andrea Bolanos, Lisa Mtui, Skye Wongapisumpo, Anna Szatan, and Russell Mo.
Members of the SED lab at the 2022 UnERD conference.